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Monitoring of the Management Plan of the Historic Centre of Florence Was Approved by the City Council on 12 July 2018 with Resolution No TITOLO Municipality of Florence The Monitoring of the Management Plan of the Historic Centre of Florence was approved by the City Council on 12 July 2018 with Resolution No. 2018/G/00321. Director of the Administrative Coordination Area Lucia Bartoli Manager of the UNESCO Office of the Municipality of Florence, Site Manager of the Historic Centre of Florence, World Heritage Site Carlo Francini Heritage_CITYlab, Joint Laboratory, Municipality of Florence – Department of Architecture of Florence Director of the Department of Architecture (DIDA) of the University of Florence Saverio Mecca Site Manager of the Historic Centre of Florence, World Heritage Site Carlo Francini Coordination of the Monitoring of the Management Plan and general management Carlo Francini Research on the Monitoring of the Management Plan and drafting of the document Chiara Bocchio, Research Scholar of the joint laboratory Heritage_CITYlab In drawing up the Monitoring, documents and data provided directly by the project managers have been used. Contributions by Paola Biagioni, Research Scholar DISEI Daniela Chiesi, Research Scholar Heritage_CITYlab Valentina Ippolito, Association Mus.E Alessia Montacchini, Research Scholar Heritage_CITYlab Marco Ricciarini, Research Fellow Heritage_CITYlab Acknowledgment We would like to thank all the stakeholders participating in the various meetings for the monitoring, who made their data available and contributed to the compilation of the project sheets. In particular, we wish to thank: The Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism: UNESCO Office MiBACT; Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Florence and for the Provinces of Pistoia e Prato; the Tuscan Regional Secretariat of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities Tuscan Regional Authority, Culture and Research Department, Metropolitan City of Florence The Municipality of Florence: Tourism Department; Economic Development Department; Environment Department; Admi- nistrative Coordination Area; Directorate General; Directorate of the Environment; Directorate of Economic Activities and Tourism; Directorate of Sport and Culture; Directorate Information System; Directorate of Technical Services; Directorate of Town Planning; Directorate of New Infrastructure and Transport; Directorate of Property Management; Civil Defence The University of Florence: Department of Architecture (DIDA); Department of Economics and Business Sciences (DISEI); CIRT Inter-University Research Centre on Tourism (University of Florence, Pisa and Siena) Association Mus.E Linea Comune S.p.A The Centre of Tourism Studies of Florence (Centro Studi Turistici) The District Basin Authority of the Northern Apennines Opera di Santa Croce The Uffizi Galleries Angeli del Bello Foundation Bardini e Peyron Monumental Parks Foundation Fondazione CR Firenze Firenze Convention & Visitors Bureau Monitoraggio del Piano di Gestione B FOREWoRD Florence is the emblem of Italian art and culture in the world and in 1982 its Historic Centre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. After all, Florence has always been considered a place belonging to all humanity. This is largely due to the role it has played in the history of civilisation and, in particular, to its renown as the birthplace of modern Humanism. Florence’s outstanding cultural importance was, in fact, one of the criteria for its inclusion on the World Heritage List. Florence’s heritage consists not only of the stone and marble monuments which are admired by millions of visitors from all over the world, but also of the cultural and literary works left by great artists, poets and writers as a legacy to humanity, works that have made Florence famous worldwide. The Outstanding Universal Value of Florence is incremented by the intangible heritage represented by the Florentine handicrafts and traditional shops, which provide concrete evidence of continuity with the past by perpetuating the historical and creative image of the city. Our city is, therefore, a living place… a place for developing and transmitting a culture of creative ideas, processes and customs. Florence is a varied and dense environment, made up of interactions and networks, capable of generating creative paths for the development of new lifestyles. After its first Management Plan in 2006, Florence approved its second Management Plan in 2016 as a tool for conserving and enhancing the World Heritage site. Today, two years later, we are presenting the Monitoring of the Management Plan 2016. This is a very important step for the management of the World Heritage site and for the application of what UNESCO asks of the sites on the World Heritage List. The city of Florence is proud to have reinforced its ties with UNESCO in recent years. It is with great pleasure that I mention the Third International UNESCO Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries, the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly, the Unity in Diversity Forum that brought together many mayors from different countries around the world, the G7 Cultural Summit, and the UNESCO/ICOMOS Advisory Mission during which several city projects were positively examined and evaluated by the international experts. These important international events in Florence reach far beyond answering the call of duty to protect and enhance our heritage, they are a testimony to the strategic role local communities can play in economic, social and cultural growth, as well as in advancing peace, tolerance and hospitality which have always characterised Florence. Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence 2 Monitoring of the Management Plan The Management Plan: a tool for the governance of the Historic Centre of Florence The Historic Centre of Florence has been included on the World Heritage List since 1982. In an attempt to make its protection more decisive, allowing the heritage to be known, defended and monitored, since 2004 UNESCO has recommended the adoption of a Management Plan by all sites included on the List. The Management Plan thus represents an important tool for the preservation and enhancement of the Heritage, but at the same time it is also a source of guidance for the decisions that the Administration is required to make regarding the use of the city and its spaces. In fact, the Management Plan is characterised by an integrated approach through which the protection and preservation of the cultural heritage is combined with the socio-economic development requirements of the territory with a view to ensuring the sustainability of the choices made. In order to fulfil the requirements related to the drawing up, implementation and monitoring of the Management Plan, in 2005 the UNESCO Office of the City of Florence was established in the municipal organisational structure. Since 2018, within the framework of the overall reorganisation of the municipal administrative structure, the UNESCO Office has been located in the Administrative Coordination Area. Thanks to this collocation, the Administration has overcome a more traditional approach, thereby enhancing the transversal dimension represented by the fact that the City’s Historic Centre belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage. In line with the Vision identified in the Management Plan 2016, according to which “only sustainable development centred on man, mutual respect and intercultural dialogue" can be the basis on which to "build a new and consistent vision for a living, thriving and welcoming city", and for the purpose of achieving the Mission of preserving “over time the Integrity and the Authenticity of the Outstanding Universal Value” of the Heritage of the Historic Centre, the administrative organisation adopted reflects the potential of the same Plan in the perspective of combining the variegated situations of the Historic Centre in "a living environment which alters and changes over time", thus enabling an effective interplay between the competent actors and stakeholders, both public and private, working in this situation, and which cannot but also take into account the co- operation among the various institutions involved at a local, national and international level. The new definition of the organisational structure confirms the relevance of the Management Plan as a tool of choice for implementing a comprehensive policy of sustainable development which, in a holistic and multidimensional approach, has an effective impact on the programming and strategic guidelines of the Administration. Consequently, the intention is to ensure the convergence of the decisions linked to the use of the city not only in the protection of the cultural heritage but also regarding the tourism, commerce, creativity, transport and urban development sectors through the promotion of participatory processes involving all stakeholders, in such a way as to create a balance and a synergy among the requirements for protection, accessibility and development of the local community. Lucia Bartoli, Director of the Administrative Coordination Area Monitoring of the Management Plan 3 The challenge of managing a World Heritage site amidst memory and future “The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.” Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations, 1954 Thirteen years have passed since the city administration decided to establish a structure that would follow the events linked to the management of the Historic Centre of Florence as a UNESCO World Heritage site. From the beginning we had the opportunity to pursue and coordinate
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